NB. The following tools are no longer maintained and may not work. I recommend that you install the Citation Expander gadget in your user preferences (listed under "Editing gadgets"); this can expand a reference from just a DOI, PMID number, and often a URL.

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Change Log

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27th July 2009

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Google Scholar has had a facelift, causing a bug in the screen-ripping algorithm (which was always stretching Google's terms of service a little more than I liked). So I've created a GreaseMonkey userscript for the Scholar front-end. I'll work on it occasionally to restore the previous functionality. Users can just add the WP:SCHOLAR add on and everything should behave as it used to (but more reliably).

3rd July 2008

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  • Add support for ISBN lookup
  • Add "drag and drop" function - copy and paste a reference from any web page and the tool will extract the salient information. (Under development, feedback welcome!)

6th June 2008

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  • Complete overhaul using DOI bot technology.

11th March 2008

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  • Support for DOIs including <>s

25th August 2007

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  • Speed greatly improved
  • DOI support enhanced
  • Special character support improved

22nd August 2007

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  • Author and Year search bugs squashed.

27th June 2007

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  • Only output minimum number of fields

26th June 2007

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  • Repair incompatibilities with new Google Scholar

25th May 2007

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  • Author bug

11th May 2007

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  • Upgraded to Google interface
  • Fixed special character bug
  • Improved doi handling

6th May 2007

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  • Added compatibility with special characters
  • DOI & ISSN grabbing
  • Various minor tweaks

28th April 2007

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  • Fixed 'Date = today' bug
  • Improved formatting of author list

26th April 2007

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  • Apostophes now compatible
  • Increased harvesting powers:
now reaps details Google Scholar doesn't find.
Can Citify items without related articles

25th April 2007

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  • More compatibility with other formats (number of braces, capitalisation)
  • Enhanced performance with {{Cite book}}

24th April 2007

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  • Implemented URL-grabber
  • Implemented DOI-finder
  • ALLCAPS sensibliser activated
  • Improved conference capabilities
  • Whitespace optimisation

23rd April 2007

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  • Fully functional
  • Compatibility issues fixed
  • Conference support